Amnesty

“Adiga is a novelist . . . one who has grown in his art since his Booker Prize-winning debut, The White Tiger.” Kamila Shamsie, Guardian

‘[Adiga] is not merely a confident storyteller but also a thinker, a skeptic, a wily entertainer, a thorn in the side of orthodoxy and cant . . . Adiga . . . displays what might be his greatest gifts as a postcolonial novelist: His strong sense of how the world actually works, and his ability to climb inside the minds of characters from vastly different social strata’ Dwight Garner, New York Times

“Adiga is a real writer – that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.” Sunday Times

“The most exciting novelist writing in English today.” A. N. Wilson

“A mesmerising, breakneck quest of a novel; a search for the true sense of self, for the answer to a moral dilemma which damns either way. The scope and profundity of Victor Hugo, the humour and wit we’ve come to expect from Adiga, and a novel which suggests the impossibility of keeping a sense of the self in a globalised world which either forces assimilation or exile.” Andrew Mcmillan

“I like to read Adiga’s novels almost as much as the poet James Dickey liked to drink. He has more to say than most novelists, and about 50 more ways to say it . . . Adiga is a startlingly fine observer, and a complicator, in the manner of V.S. Naipaul . . . Reading him you get a sense of having your finger on the planet’s pulse… This novel has a simmering plot . . . [but] you come to this novel for other reasons, notably for its author’s authority, wit and feeling on the subject of immigrants’ lives . . . Keep reading.” New York Times

“Searing, inventive . . . Amnesty is Adiga’s most accomplished novel yet, a gorgeously crafted page-turner with brains and heart, illuminating the courage of displaced peoples and the cruelties of those who conspire against them.” Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune

‘What makes Amnesty an urgent and significant book is the generosity and the humanity of its vision. The abstract issue of immigration, fodder for cheap politics, comes starkly alive in the story of this one man, his past troubles and his present conflict. Amnesty is an ample book, pertinent and necessary. It speaks to our times.” Juan Gabriel Vasquez, New York Times Book Review

“Adiga shines when documenting the ways in which immigrants are marginalized by those who claim to care about them . . . Amnesty succeeds in wrenching attention toward systemic injustice.” Kristen Millares Young, Washington Post

“A universal story with particular relevance and urgency today.” Parade

“A near-hallucinatory guided tour of Australia’s largest city as observed by an endearing oddball who, out of necessity, keeps to the shadows . . . In fresh and playful prose . . . Adiga places you smack in the middle of Danny’s buzzing mind . . . With its pleasurably off-kilter sympathies and style, Amnesty compellingly captures Danny’s tricky plight.” Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times

“Adiga is one of the great observers of power and its deformities, showing in novels like his Booker Prize winning White Tiger and Last Man in Tower how within societies, the powerful lean on the less powerful, and the weak exploit the weaker all the way down. Telling the tale of Danny’s immigration along the story of one tense day, he has built a forceful, urgent thriller for our times.” John Freeman, Lit Hub Executive Editor

“In all of its minutiae and incredible detail, these pages call attention to the real heartbreak of undocumented people who dream of a better existence . . . the writing is beautiful (at times lyrical).” Jennifer Forker, Associated Press

“A work of deeply consequential fiction.” BookPage, starred review

“Like Valeria Luiselli in Lost Children Archive, Adiga bears witness to the disruption, pain, and hardship inherent in needing to leave one’s country and find refuge elsewhere. Highly recommended.” Library Journal, starred review

"In this smart twist on a classic whodunit, Danny, undocumented and working as a house cleaner in Sydney after fleeing Sri Lanka, has information about an unsolved murder. He must decide whether to stay silent—or come forward and risk deportation.” VanityFair

“A taut, thrillerlike novel . . . A well-crafted tale of entrapment, alert to the risk of exploitation that follows immigrants in a new country.” Kirkus, starred review

"Engrossing . . . vivid . . . Adiga’s enthralling depiction of one immigrant’s tough situation humanizes a complex and controversial global dilemma." Publishers Weekly

"Scrutinizes the human condition through a haves-vs-have-not filter with sly wit and narrative ingenuity . . . Adiga's smart, funny, and timely tale with a crime spin of an undocumented immigrant will catalyze readers." Booklist

“Adiga's facility for the cadence and vernacular of street talk and self-talk gives voice, literally, to figures that are often unheard.” Shelf Awareness